Key Performance Indicators

Drawing conclusions from symptoms without discovering the real reason the symptoms are occurring (i.e. by looking at the whole picture), may result in a misdiagnosis (not creating good metrics to track ‘real’ improvement) and subsequent disaster.

Key Performance Indicators: Identifying the Right Questions

One way you can identify the right questions to better understand and solve your business challenges is to use the methodology of asking 5 Why’s. E.g. your boss wants you to send him a report on whether the customer service department has been successfully handling client complaints.

• Start with what defines success
• Why is this information important to you
• Find out if your clients definition of successfully handling complaints is different than your employer’s definition
• Find out if the customer service department already has a strategic plan that includes their definition of success
• What are all the possible actions you would take, if your customer service department wasn’t successfully handling client complaints? What changes would you make?

There may be more questions you would consider to get to the right question, but hopefully you get the idea. Once you get the answers to all these questions, the root question you finally decide upon, will be different. The resulting metrics that you create to track success, and how often you review them, will be different than the reports you were about to print out and send your boss.

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